The Birth of Hip Hop

In 1973, DJ Kool Herc set up his turntables and introduced a technique at a South Bronx house party that would change music as many people knew it. His ability to switch from record to record - as well as isolate and repeat music breaks - led to the discovery of the hip hop genre.
From school yards to gatherings, boomboxes housed the exhilarating sound that people couldn’t get enough of. Soon, freestyling over the beat became popular, and we’d have one of the most noted songs of the genre released in 1979, entitled “Rapper’s Delight.” As the genre evolved, artists used their platform to speak on social issues near and far. These lyrics became the melody that told the narrative of the artist’s world to a beat.
Hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from author Joan Morgan, Jelani Cobb of Columbia University, rapper Nas, and filmmaker Ava Duvernay, we celebrate an underground cultural movement that has unified people and has become the most streamed genre of present day.
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[@nomad1517]

One thing I love about this genre of music is that you didn't have to be classically trained, you didn't need to have a million dollar studio. You just needed a sampler, a turn table, and you could basically make platinum albums. Rap is such a flexible genre, you can literally mix it with anything and it sounds good, if done right.

[@sls554]

Really everything in Hip Hop does not so good, and that's all genre of music Jazz blues,, rock, country, and r& b.

[@sls554]

Like any genre of music if it is done right, it will sound good. If not done right, it will sound bad this includes Rap.

[@sls554]

Since you used the word Rap there are some Hip Hop artists refer emcee over Rap and they are saying an emcee does more than a Rap. Some of these Hip Hop artists are making new definition for Hip Hop.

[@sls554]

Any can of music can be mix with any can of other music not just Hop. Well a system which are two turntables and a mixer cost that's why you see more people rapping than DJs with two turntables because a system cost to much.

[@sls554]

It is good that everyone like their own genre of music. Jazz, Blues, rock, R& B, Country goes to far sometimes, and that include Hip Hop,also.

[@mdhbh]

Black people have been rhyming since the 1940s. It wasn’t called HiP HoP then. It evolve over time.

[@BTman58]

Hip Hop Hop is not just rap. In fact the rap part of Hip Hop was not the first part of Hip Hop. The DJ playing the breaks is where it begins, the dancers, graffiti, and the MC is what forms Hip Hop.

[@mdhbh]

@@BTman58 I agree with you. I was only saying that rap has been around for a while but under a different jargon.

[@sterlingturner5318]

Black people created hip hop. We own it

[@mdhbh]

@@sterlingturner5318 I’m from the mecca of Hip Hop and grew up in it. Before Blacks were rapping it was called “The Dozens.”

[@mdhbh]

@@BTman58 Facts… I remember.

[@yamasyc]

It's not hip hop music, hip hop is the culture. The right thing to say is Rap music which is one of the four elements of the culture

[@gufftrap999]

Rap is the music of Hip Hop

[@blueblaze9862]

This is all just semantics

[@gm9984]

Break dancing, MCing, tagging, and...?

[@yamasyc]

@@gm9984 Bboying*, Mcing, taggin, deejayin'

[@gm9984]

@@yamasyc word. Appreciate that man

[@louguzzo4977]

I am so glad I grew up in NY at this time. Just a pure sound and art form!

[@BringMeTheDisco]

We watch you in school to celebrate black history month.

[@pjangels609]

But black folks did not invent rhymes, sorry. The Scots did!

[@Kitty_bandida22]

Yeah and its sad how people forget about Hispanic history month when it is big to

[@royaltmusicc]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2GylYunmL-hbdE

[@Robo311Star]

​@@pjangels609No. Yall created having small DxxKs and soulless gingers

[@Robo311Star]

​@@Kitty_bandida22fuk Hispanic history when it's stacked up against blk culture.

[@benji.B-side]

A very good snack sized video. As an old school breaker in the UK, these kids from the Bronx and such, changed our lives. B-Boys will always be boys! Respect, peace and love!

[@OnceWasSomething]

Not only is the video informative and concise for people like me to understand (never grew up with this culture at all), but the comment section here is full of people correcting and sharing more nuanced information that the video may have missed. A godsend, truly.

[@Black_unity597]

Just double check what you read in these comments a lot of lies have been told about the creation of hip hop for along credit was taken that was not rightfully deserved hip hop is African American culture all others were accepted into our culture then tried to take claim of it but finally those that did that are now being called out for the lies and like all other things a lie repeated over and over and over it becomes the truth to those who want to Believe it and there are those who want to know the truth hopefully you are one of those! The culture since 71 is a good Channel to sub to when seeking the truth about the birth of hip hop! Peace & Blessing to you!

[@koreyp2845]

Kool Herc never even said he created Hip Hop. It was going on before he even started Djing

[@london8615]

i mean he refers to himself as the Father of Hip-Hop

[@jerrygraves6531]

@@london8615 no he said godfather also he literally said he didn't create it look up the clip on yt

[@AJ-pc5ln]

Hip-hop is not from Jamaican Culture Hip-hop is from Black American Culture Soul, Funk, Jive Talk period.

[@rodh3489]

💯

[@nyonjevista3829]

It was started by Jamaican

[@AJ-pc5ln]

@@nyonjevista3829 That does not mean that Hip-hop is from Jamaican Culture. Kool Herc immigrated to the USA at 12 years old. He immersed himself into African American Culture. He began extending the Breaks on FUNK AND SOUL music especially the music of James Brown kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWinoY15fbegp68 They were not extending Breaks on any type of Music in Jamaica thats something he did while in Black American Culture in the USA. Other DJs like Grandmaster Flowers, and Disco King Mario did that before him. is derived from the Black American Cultural Art forms of Soul and Funk. Nothing about Hip-hop is Culturally from Jamaica.

[@nyonjevista3829]

@@AJ-pc5ln what I needed to know is that hiphop wasn't started by black American. It was started by Jamaican period.No arguement so you can't claim or own it when the inventor is not black American in the first place.

[@AJ-pc5ln]

@NyonjeVista That means absolutely nothing Hip-hop was started in the Bronx New York and is derived from the Music of African Americans Period. Hip-hop is derived from Black American Culture Funk and Soul music especially the music of James Brown kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWinoY15fbegp68 Nothing about Hip-hop is Culturally From the Island of Jamaica. Kool Herc immigrating to America at age 12 means absolutely nothing for Hip-hop Culture has absolutely nothing to do with anything Culturally from the Island of Jamaica thats all derived from Black American Cultural Art forms of Soul and Funk Music not Jamaican Culture. They were not Extending The Breaks on anything in Jamaica. That's something Herc did while immersed in Black American Culture Using Black American Cultural Art forms Soul and Funk PERIOD! You cannot change The Facts.

[@maxwellbrisk5622]

Herc creating Hip Hop is like saying Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America lol..All the elements were here already, none of them till this day are even popular or dominate in Jamaica

[@marshascott6107]

Right, they taking crazy, because alot the old heads that was there when it started, said the Herc did'nt even want to be identified as Jamaican, because nobody was rocking with their music and style, and for the record... He got his techniques from a black american name DJ King Mario, and from black american music. Mario was Before Herc and he was a black american(*Talking)

[@TheGeeLuv]

I agree! My 81 old mother said the same thing.

[@JUSLOFI]

@@marshascott6107 Herc wasn't the first DJ but he was the B-Boys favorite DJ. That's why he gets the recognition.

[@coepatte99]

There is a difference in saying Hip Hop came from Jamaica and saying a Jamaican American created a sound that pioneered Hip Hop. Herc was a hip hop pioneer with Jamaican ancestry. And all that ancestry goes back to the motherland. Nothing is created from nothing. Everything is influenced by everything, so discovery when it comes to music is a wrong term, but pioneering, creating a new sound, new flow is. Herc was a DJ and only a part of all the elements. He was the creator of the break beat. No one else was doing that. I don’t understand why anyone wants to diminish his contribution as a pioneer.

[@TheGeeLuv]

@@coepatte99 Please look on my Playlist and watch the videos because you are clearly misinformed. You can hear out the horse's mouth that he mimics and copy the Americans. For a long time, we did not know he was Jamaican.

[@adriannogales1132]

You all nailed a lesson I've been teaching for 8 years, that lesson feels so validated right now!! Glad to see you made 100 more videos like this with the small eloquent closed caption at the bottom to encourage young people to read along! Brilliant and I have 90 students this video tomorrow

[@skillzmedina8745]

I am now running across people who are pushing a revisionist narrative about hip hop because they don't like the fat the Kool Herc was born in Jamaica. For some reason it really upsets certain people when they find out Kool Herc was Jamaican

[@Gigi-fp8pd]

@@skillzmedina8745 no it only upsets ppl when y'all try to pretend he was the 1st founding father. Many others predate him.

[@jeffking220]

We will never allow anyone to steal hip hop. No hip hop in Jamaica now. And never was.

[@jessicam.4777]

@@skillzmedina8745 The actual revisionist history is that a Jamaican created Hip Hop.

[@markeyosef1579]

@@jessicam.4777 Jamaicans created not a thing. They are The Originators of copying.

[@complexsoulthegreat]

I don’t know why there is a Heavy emphasis on “Kool Herk” being Jamaican-born. Dj Kool Herc assimilated into black American culture and was influenced heavily by African American culture. I saw the videos on KZbin of him in his early days, you wouldn't even know that he was Jamaican because he looked like just an ordinary brotha. Afro, sideburns, some cool shades, a nice shirt and matching bellbottom pants. He wasn't even talking patois or with a Jamaican accent. Dude was completely assimilated as a black man in America. Kool herc looked up to guys like Disco King Mario, who was the man at the time and was out and popular before Dj Kool herc. I’m not saying any of this to discredit Kool herc but some of you folks from the island just jumped on some crazy bandwagon madness about the Origins of hip-hop being Jamaican because Kool herc is Jamaican. When all reality he definitely contributed but you can’t put cool herc over guys like disco king Mario. He was one of the dudes who started mixing and scratching on turntables. This entire rumor going around that Jamaicans created Hip Hop is absurd. You can’t create something that was already here. All elements of hip hop were born here in America not Jamaica or any Caribbean island for that matter. Hip hop is an African American art form that was shared with folks from Jamaica, Puerto Rico ex…. And they all contributed to it on a major scale, that will and can never be denied. We love our Caribbean family but to say that you guys created hip hop Because Kool Herc is Jamaican and contributed is disingenuous. See I can’t go to Jamaica learn the language and assimilate into Jamaican culture, contribute to the already exciting culture, and then turn around and say that I created the culture. Folks would look at me crazy. Do you know what created hip hop? Jazz, blues, Funk music, soul music, rock music, and even gospel music. All of which are African American art forms of music. Even Kool herc admits this.

[@mrl3129]

Word!

[@dorothycrawley3327]

I've heard Jamaicans on other channels saying they invented hip hop which is not true..Just because a Jamaican man assimilated into American music style and rhythm does not mean that it came from Jamaica..They have calypso and reggae..People probably didn't know this man was Jamaican being that he looked black American Truth..Jamaicans don't want black Americans in their culture yet try to claim ours..

[@newestbarbee3250]

dj herc kool incorcopated what Jamaicans have using all along which is the act of djaying which is now rap American style. No one was spitting rhymes over a beat except Jamaicans in the past. Clash is what we do since forever , it's what rappers now do when they go head to head. It's what Jamaicans been doing when no one else was. He basically used Jamaican influences to start a genre. Jamaica invented EDM too, much he genre and several other genres were invented by Jamaica. An example of Jamaica's influence on another cultures music is

[@newestbarbee3250]

Reggaeton

[@dorothycrawley3327]

@@newestbarbee3250 Stop the LIES..Hip Hop and rap are AMERICAN black culture..They've been rapping since the 40s and 50s..This Jamaican man just found this genre of music and started playing it..

[@willisgaines6882]

People are gonna have to cut this "Herc created HipHop" nonsense out once and for all

[@JUSLOFI]

Herc didn't create it but he was the B-Boys favorite DJ from 1973-1977

[@abdurraheemali9303]

@@JUSLOFI true

[@jeromegardner1843]

Workout true history we are lost. Just accept that a jamaican started hip hop. It is what it is. And thats fact.

[@willisgaines6882]

@@jeromegardner1843 How do you invent something that’s already being done? Y’all made Kool Herc the Christopher Columbus of Hip Hop

[@jeromegardner1843]

Have u ever listen the dancehall music before. Just as how hip hop started with a person dj on the mike after a break from the sound system. It the same concept kool herc brought to new york and start hip pop. U guys have a problem because its not an American who started it. If it was an American u would not debate it. Just dont try to change the true history for a false one. Just let it be Because it is fact

[@BryanRo77]

Hip hop music was born from the underground funk of the 70s. James Brown was mainstream but breakbeats were what set the underground apart

[@commandercaptain4664]

I need to know who dubbed that Herc party as the official start, cuz I don’t remember designating that one as Grand Poobah of When Things Get Started.

[@BryanRo77]

@@commandercaptain4664 I wasnt there but the breaks he was using came from the underground NY funk of the 70s--I uploaded some of it-- check it out

[@sls554]

​@@commandercaptain4664 herc is a Fake. African American DJs in 1960s the one that some people called Disco DJs which is a Lie. The TRUE Fathers of Hip Hop are which are African Americans are Grandmaster Flowers, King Disco Mario, DJ Pete Jones,Kool DJ Dee, and Mixologist Tyrone and some more DJs Invented Hip Hop before in the 1960s before herc.

[@sls554]

​@@commandercaptain4664 These Pioneers Of Hip Hop were playing Disco and Funk music. They were playing the BreakBeats, and extending the Breakbeats too, playing with Two Turntables and a mixer and playing two records with the same Breakbeats before herc.

[@sls554]

​@@commandercaptain4664herc Copy the early Pioneers Of Hip Hop. herc said he start djing in 1973. The true Fathers of Hip Hop Invented Hip Hop in 1960s before herc. African Americans DJs were playing the Breakbeats before 1973. herc was the only dj that did not know how to play the Breakbeats.

[@ydmkid1732]

Thankyou so much for sharing this ! Adding to my notes 🙏🏼

[@globalmajority1310]

✊🏾💥💥💥LOVE DR. HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. “SKIP “ !

[@ctuy-uy8dc]

Rip DMX ✊🏾

[@royaltmusicc]

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[@kamryncallen8519]

Sorry to be off topic but does any of you know a way to get back into an Instagram account? I was stupid lost my password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me.

[@malachioakley3083]

@Kamryn Callen instablaster ;)

[@non-expertguy9805]

R.I.P. MF Doom

[@london8615]

RIP 2PAC ❤

[@bryangalloway5731]

Herc came over and tried to play Jamaican music but nobody wanted to hear it so he had to play what black Djs were already playing...he didn't create hip hop

[@abdurraheemali9303]

🤣😂

[@robertdavideldridge8109]

Outstanding summary. Thank you

[@reinaldogarcia70]

I was 13 years old & i lived in 138 st & saint Anns Ave the NYC housing projects in the south Bronx 1979 ❤ So i remember ❤

[@kingstonian7066]

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 much respect Jamaicans hold your head up be strong 💪 🙏 be proud 👏

[@johnfu3633]

yes

[@soonone8306]

I don't know what for a lie . You better be worried about your country before the Chinese take it over with your lying ass

[@jeromegardner1843]

Full time now for america to give recognition to dj kool herc the founder of hip hop. Instead of doing everything to hide the real history

[@blueblaze9862]

I love how short but informative this is..jeez

[@curtiswhiteheadjr1322]

This is definitely gettin posted! #RealHipHopStillBreathes! 💯🎤💖

[@sls554]

African Americans we have to pay to get our story how African Americans Invented Hip Hop.

[@sls554]

Anybody can put information in Wikipedia, and Google. We have to pay to input our story about how African Americans Invented Hip Hop but we have to pay to have our story on television, radio, books, Wikipedia, and Google.

[@Gigi-fp8pd]

Dj Herc didn't start hip hop nor was he the first to isolate musical breaks. See what happens when you get your black history info from Wikipedia?

[@jonathanvelez4182]

Who was it then?

[@americasmaker]

@@jonathanvelez4182 Disco DJs, Hip Hop DJ culture came from Disco DJ culture, not Jamaica. kzbin.info/aero/PL77OcsA0H7EgEx7fm5771RzAo5KYYKivf

[@jessicam.4777]

I was informed that anyone could add info to Wikipedia. 🤦🏿‍♀️

[@Gigi-fp8pd]

​@@jonathanvelez4182Dj Pete Jones had been doing it for years

[@kaminimbus6449]

As a kid who's this is essential to know

[@Lils0m]

Thank you so much it's so educationing also i needed information about history of hip-hop culture exactly and will save it play it and study again and again !

[@val13c59]

I read that Muhammad Ali Spoken Word poetry and trash talk combine gave elements of Hip Hop. He is credited as to have influence the genre Hip Hop. I read it in a local entertainment magazine. I’m not saying it’s a fact.

[@patrickzulu4242]

😂😂😂 Muhammad Ali

[@planetz1111]

As a Jamaican-American, I can say that I am so proud to have this connection to the birth of Hip Hop 😌✨🇯🇲

[@Smitty753]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jamToIhnhNN7nJo I'll just leave this here for some evidence they might not started we thought it did

[@jayjones251]

What's the connection?

[@SOULAANI_]

No connection bro, it was Mađe and pioneered by only african americans, immigrants simply copied what was already there

[@user-hx8zm4fe4q]

Nope they keep this herc lie going to steal from ADOS/ FBA

[@craigrankine9867]

​@jayjones251 a Jamaican created hip hop goggle it

[@afro__g5217]

Wish I learned this in school

[@paola24jb]

Excelent short video!!!!

[@michaelmoss5040]

An almighty experience I’ll never forget! 🎶🎭🎹🎸😃

[@awesomeasever8370]

Hip-Hop is a subculture not a genre of music, there was NEVER any music created in the Bronx. Rap/Rapping was already a part of Black American society before the Hip-Hop Movement existed. Many books, articles and documentaries contain false and misleading information. The people who've spread the most misinformation and caused confusion in the process are from Caribbean backgrounds; first in the early 1980s it was Afrika Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation, then KRS-One and most recently Busta Rhymes. In the early 80s white corporations marketed "Rap" and "Hip-Hop" together using the terms interchangeably creating the false impression that they're one and the same and have the same history.

[@sumukhbharadwaj6216]

Hello, what's the source of your information? I ask this cuz I'm writing an essay about the impact of hip hop on American culture and it would be really helpful if you could guide me to the source of your info! Thanks.

[@danw1374]

Gil Scott Heron

[@americasmaker]

@@sumukhbharadwaj6216 kzbin.info/aero/PL77OcsA0H7EgEx7fm5771RzAo5KYYKivf

[@pjangels609]

Rapping was long out in Scotland 500 years ago called "limericks", an expressive form of praising and dissing. Look it up!

[@americasmaker]

@@pjangels609 No.

[@weebi33]

And for the people saying that people from the Caribbean and etc created it. Riddle me this, why was it not created in those countries until after us? We have a whole catalog of genres we made before hip hop came. I don’t know why it’s hard for y’all to give us our flowers.

[@tbphillips9649]

Immigration and who is us

[@tudevoid]

Bro the Puerto Rican influence in hip-hop culture is enough to shut you up. Taggin', graffiti,, bboy

[@SOULAANI_]

@@tudevoidthose things were already present in african american culture before you immigrants got here. You didnt create anything you rode the wave we had😂

[@ricanredru4760]

@@tudevoid yeah these clowns don't be understanding Jack they just want to hear themselves yapping a bunch of ignorance.

[@GorenGuang]

Bro this is my favorite music genre!

[@dmmlp2965]

Thank you

[@noeasyprops4535]

Should have started with the Bboys since the dance is what really gave the visibility and set everything in motion, and no mention of graffiti art? hmm this should have been called the birth of rap music.

[@royaltmusicc]

#johnnyx100 👈💿🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@PlutoSevenTbb75]

Absolutely true, many speak on the culture but don’t know the true history, it started with the Bgirls and Bboy’s…

[@tudevoid]

Yeah alot of black people try to claim hip-hop as just the music and dj part. Forget about the taggin', graffiti, and bboy. Which had huge latino/ Puerto Rican influence.

[@eydmz5766]

Peace, unity, love, and having fun!

[@rayantenna]

Such a dope genre.

[@jasonranaweera3630]

That's freeeeeeeeking interesting ❤

[@RaymondBrown-xw4cj]

WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CHRONOLOGICAL BLACK AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY: Hip hop came directly out of The Black Power/Black Is Beautiful/ Black Arts Movement of the 1960's &1970's. This was the most culturally and politically active era in African American history. The teen contingent of the movement played out as presented on Soul Train produced by Don Cornelius beginning 1970 when the show was nationally broadcast from Chicago from 1970 to the end of 1971. He moved the show to LA, but he took several of his teen dancers with him to ensure the dance quality of the show would remain the same after the move. The TV show became our most powerful Black teen cultural influence for 36 years. Soul Train hit American popular culture like a cultural tsunami. It instantly eclipsed Dick Clark's American Bandstand in international popularity. Chicago is the capitol of African American Blues and Gospel Music. Chicago due to The Great Migration is Mississippi once removed. Chicago developed the best social dancers in Black America. Michael Jackson comes from that dance enclave. Because break dancing had been a part of the Chicago dance lexicon since the 1950's, most likely influenced by the Black dance crews seen on TV variety shows in the 1950's, the Chicago teens on Soul Train showcased break dancing as part of their dance repertoire. For the first time in or cultural history we had a national stage to spotlight Black music stars, show-off old and new Black dances, and to premiere new Black talent. Teens across this nation copied the break dancing seen on Soul Train, including The Black Spades. They sang James Brown's (who was a frequent guest on ST) "Soul Power." They personalized it by singing "Spade Power! They put their influence on break dancing to make it uniquely their own. James Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" was the Black teen national anthem. Those who recognize James Brown as the Godfather of hip hop, rarely mention the Black Power aspect of what he was promoting, along with other Black Protest stars like Curtis Mayfield (Movin' On Up), Nina Simone (To Be Young Gifted and Black), and Marvin Gaye (What's Goin' On) among many others, that sparked the impetus for Black teen heightened involvement. The Black Arts Movement elevated rhyming Black Protest poets like H Rap Brown, Amir Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Don L. Lee aka Haki Madhubuti, The Last Poets, and Mari Evans among others, to the forefront as the rapping voices of Black Power that politicized Black American teens. This Black teen cultural revolution was televised. Neither Puerto Ricans nor Jamaicans were singing, dancing, rapping about, nor identifying with our Black Is Beautiful/Black Power/Black Arts Movement. They still don't. Their great jealousy grew out of the international excitement generated by Black American teens dancing on national TV that did not include them. Because the broadcast came out of Chicago, not NYC, it singularly showcased Black American teens only. Soul Train is the genesis of the NYC PR and Jamaican great cultural jealousy. The emergence of The Black Spades Black Power gang culture gave PRs in the Bronx a local Black cultural expression they could cosplay in their jealous quest to leech the Black American teen international pop culture spotlight. Their desire for the same fame that Black teens had, is the reason NYC PRs in mass set aside their long-standing antipathy towards NYC African Americans in order to surreptitiously enter their ranks to gain acceptance so they could cosplay Black American dance, music and style. Five plus decades later Latinos have delusionally convinced themselves that they actually created what they effetely copied. Anyone who speaks about the development of hip hop and doesn't mention the worldwide influence the Black Is Beautiful/Black Power/Black Arts Movement or the impact of Soul Train, they don't know what they are talking about. The 10 years following the assassination of MLK, Black America was politically and culturally ablaze. Hip hop grew directly out of the tenor of those times. No immigrant group was powerful enough to influence Black American teen music, dance, nor style during that Black Power period, no matter where they were located. All other teens, white American teens and white college students, American immigrant teens in and outside of NYC, and teens around the world copied the powerful music, dance, and political colloquialisms (like "Right-On" and "Power To The People!") presented by African Americans from various regions across this nation. Contemporary self-aggrandizing cultural history revisionists like Colon and certain descendants of island immigrants have chosen the most active, the most vocal, and the most recorded period in Black American history to try and hijack. All their ever-changing revisionist folklore narratives are continually being debunked by authentic Black Americans, because they have no visual or journalistic documented evidence to support their delusional wishful claims, nor do they present acceptable reasoning that ratifies Puerto Rican/Jamaican bizarre demands to force their way into African American culture that resists their irrational intrusions.

[@aniyax4023]

Hip-hop is black American creation

[@NATURALLYOLINA]

Who are these African Americans you speak of?

[@NATURALLYOLINA]

@@aniyax4023 I know the doc however in my opinion that doesn't mean that it's AA. It took many hands to make this art form a thing and Caribbean people are a large part of this. There's no denying this. When ppl think the HIP HOP HERC and the house party comes up 99.9% of the time

[@aniyax4023]

@@NATURALLYOLINA what are you talkin about you did not watch the documentary black Americans been doing House parties with DJs before he even came to this country there are five elements of hip-hop. Graffiti a black American created that, rap the actual art form of putting words together black Americans created that, DJ we were already for DJing he was not the first DJ in New York four came up with that creation, beatboxing we created that and breakdancing we created that. He did not create Hip Hop he took Funk Beats that black Americans created merge them together and put the brakes in on the turntable and we give him credit for that but he did not create hip-hop

[@aniyax4023]

@craig rankine what did he create in hip-hop

[@pjangels609]

Actually, it's not. It was created by Scotsman several hundred years ago called "limericks", a form of praising and dissing.

[@xiaomeili1145]

I like this

[@royaltmusicc]

This video was 9 months ago. Now a life is being born into this world... a legend... #johnnyx100 👈👈👈💿💿💿👈👈👈

[@ConquerWealth.network]

Kool Herc went on Maury Polvich show to take a lie detector test' and the test came back "YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER"

[@abdissagebre3275]

Excellent job, Robert. Keep up telling the black history.

[@jays4dayzllc164]

THANK YOU for this!!! I promise you this needs to be taught in schools around the world!! This is a culture like any other black ground breaking history for our community. I am truly proud to be a BLACK descendent of the HIP HIP legacy ;)

[@robertjohnson2916]

Hip hop is trash.

[@misterw591]

Happy Birthday Hip Hop

[@bwada8410]

I am Asian and a big fan of blacks interms of music and dance..

[@lildurk3004]

Have you heard of MC Jin

[@sterlingturner5318]

Hip Hop.is black culture

[@stanleyshack26]

dj herc did not start Hip hop

[@stanleyshack26]

DJ herc the Jamaican did not start Hip Hop. Hip Hop was Already Invented by African Americans.

[@stanleyshack26]

dj herc learned merry go round from African American DJs who had invented the MERRY go round and they were playing it.

[@stanleyshack26]

African Americans started Hip Hop dj herc copy Hip Hop from African American DJs.

[@stanleyshack26]

I just want to say White people, Latinos, and Caribbean playing a apart of Hip Hop BUT AFRICAN AMERICAN MADE, START, AND INVENTED HIP HOP BEFORE ANYONE ELSE.

[@nyonjevista3829]

DJ herc invented hiphop and he is jamaican.Black Americans popularised it.

[@user-bb3is5xd5h]

Happy 50th birthday Hip-Hop!!

[@me109cito5]

I'm hip to this 😅

[@Tashaten]

JJ. Fad and I'm here to rap!!! No one should step out of line black americans are the creators of it all!!! Love black america our history shouldn't never be forgotten ❤️

[@athugnamedldybug]

Black and Latinos

[@Tashaten]

Latinos came in later, but not in the beginning.

[@xtraprebel6274]

@@athugnamedldybug they came after they didn't influence nothing.

[@bigcoop3717]

Foundational black Americans founded hip hop and country/blues/rock

[@waynegriffith2402]

Simultaneously in Jamaica was the birth of modern reggae dancehall (dub) music. These two genres (hip-hop and dancehall) are of similar origins and structure.

[@thebiggestfinesser]

I’m gonna rebirth hiphop…idk how but imma do it before I leave this earth #222

[@Volcanic_Eruption]

DJ Kool Herc was not the first, a group called the Black Spades were having hip hop parties in the very early 70s

[@danieljulbe2162]

Ogs where I’m from in bk told me about grandmaster flowers and dj pete jones were before herc

[@whitewavewaterfall]

I remember the first time I had heard the term rap music it was in 1970 the upper west side of Manhattan from kids my age who had attended a party at our community center. They said that it was new and it was called rap music. They came to school and told me all about the next day. Because I was allowed to hang out pass 5. I was ten at that time.

[@kay-marie1076]

Just because he's Jamaican you think they didn't invent hip hop. Next you will be saying Black Americans invented Reggae, Ragga and Dancehall!!!

[@ohreally6231]

@@kay-marie1076 Respectfully ALL Jamaican reggae icons followed American Motown Music and used their cadence lyrics as their foundation sorry sistren don't be jelly we love Jamaicans eventhough you don't love us:)

[@marshascott6107]

​@@kay-marie1076 The old head Jamaicans said it

[@tara-jadewilliams7051]

Can we take a minute to realize we black people are the most followed in everything!!! Especially Hip Hop and how it made the other races wanna do it !!! But yet they hate us 😭👩🏾‍🦯😃💀💀

[@bwada8410]

You are right, but i loved blacks, i am asian

[@kinyunjarmon8575]

This is why the hate we have for each other is so confusing to me 😞

[@zoneworldentertainment8962]

@@kinyunjarmon8575 Black people are so great that we even cause our on race to hate the greatness.

[@dhurrshanace8223]

No man !!! Me an Asian ...love y'all!! Thanks for bringing Hip hop to this world 🔥

[@jonathanvelez4182]

Yall hate white people but still be using their technology and wearing their brands.

[@errylkingracinez8850]

HIP HOP IS MY GENRE TOO. ALL MY LIFE. IM FROM PHILIPPINES.

[@awesomeasever8370]

Rap is music, Hip-Hop is a subculture. Rap started in the South, Hip-Hop started in New York. Rap is sometimes called Hip-Hop because it's the music of Hip-Hop. Both are EXCLUSIVELY Foundational Black American creations. 🇺🇸 ✊🏽 🇺🇸 ✊🏽

[@royaltmusicc]

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[@geraldblount4159]

No it didn't South had hillbilly Music Man acting like it came from the south I used to go down south as a kid they didn't even know what that s*** was from New York

[@sterlingturner5318]

Hip Hop.is black music/culture

[@skoldmplus6763]

Ols School 😎💪🎤

[@amanijohnson5246]

I was watching this in class And its sad how no one knows the history of hip hop But they wanna listen to Cardi n and Megan ect.

[@axilmar254]

Rhyming was a big part of black culture...there are a few videos surfaced in youtube with songs from the 30s and 40s that contain parts of pure 100% hip hop style rhyming. I once met someone from south Africa that told me that families used to rhyme on poems over dinner or lunch. It seems rhyming comes straight from the heart of the black man - and quite a few whites too.

[@INCHATT]

I listen to music from the 1920s 1930s and 1940s and I can say with all certainty that a lot of the Blues and Jazz from that era did contain rhyming lyrics. I don't know why Luke Jordan's "Pick Poor Robin Clean" comes to mind off the bat. But people like Memphis Minnie and or even Blind Willie McTell come to mind too! And those people were African Americans. So this Jamaican and Puerto Rican thing is strange to my ears.

[@luly2369]

PIGMEAT MARKHAM. and others from 50s and 60s. They are the founders of rap.

[@ImRichBych]

Hell no. Rap/Hip hop should’ve came into fruition then at that time at that place. A few isolated incidents at best.

[@down-b8197]

@@ImRichBych She's correct. James brown and Muhammad Ali also played a huge role.

[@wackyval6898]

friend of mine had this biggie tape he never wanted to lend to me......finally i got it.....copied it.....switched the tapes in the cassette .....gave him back the copy in the original case... for letting me beg so long

[@adrienrosier5319]

#HIPHOP raised me!

[@mejulian01]

Nice. I'm just starting to explore hip hop music and I appreciate the history bits. Is there a difference between rap and hip hop?

[@tudevoid]

Hip-hop is a culture.. rap is just a genre

[@valerieaufdenberg724]

Hip Hop CAME From Rap Music!🙏🏼😃

[@Creole_Chief100]

Lol no. Rap music comes from hip hop

[@shotyme2825]

@@Creole_Chief100 Wrong, Rap came first. Hip-hop is a sub-culture that incorporated rapping as one of its elements.

[@royaltmusicc]

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[@Creole_Chief100]

@@shotyme2825 lmao goofy rap is one of many elements of hip hop 😂

[@Creole_Chief100]

@@shotyme2825 rap is an element of hip hop. Rap is the first introduced science to hip hop.

[@moshefabrikant1]

2:10 Hip hop it's a way to reflect/move a message across to the audience like a cnn

[@user-nk9pd5tk8y]

My teacher want me to listen to this

[@THEBAREBACCPODCAST]

This is false. Herc was not a founder he didn't even bring one element of hip hop

[@juxx8889]

Herc couldnt even cut a record

[@kay-marie1076]

@@juxx8889 I bet you can't.

[@juxx8889]

@@kay-marie1076 hahaha

[@OGGOAT23]

Youngsters must watch this

[@bankrolljay6907]

I’m watching this at 14

[@antoniobarnes694]

I’m 34 and I’m watching it. I once told a older white man about black hip hop and black culture and how it was formed by our suppression and hard times turned into something fun and good he wanted to argue with me and told me it was formed by jazz music. I’m like I’m black I think I would know about my culture. That’s like me trying to tell a asian guy about Asian culture when I was never exposed to it

[@kymanibrown8039]

@@bankrolljay6907 Hip Hop's brother kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpmxiHyDarSYbNk

[@Jonnhy_24]

Harry Mack is bringing hip Hop Magic to us like we had on the past

[@americasmaker]

@@kymanibrown8039 No, that is the offspring of Hip Hop.

[@WeedTacos]

Happy Blessed Black History Month✊🏾

[@l.torrence4603]

Busta would have you think Jamaican and Puerto Ricans created hip hop. This is not the case. The part I can't wrap my mind around is why would he lie on and disrespect the very people he made his fortune on. He didn't make it off Jamaicans or Puerto Ricans. Because if he did we'd probably wouldn't know of him. He made it off black America. The culture less people by his recollection. Busta was messing with the Bronx around the time hip hop was created and to miss that history so badly is stupid ish.

[@myrnafernandez1835]

That right the DJ in the park 70s 🎉

[@jeffreyharnden7523]

I hope to see a documentary of the birth of gospel music but I heard that it got started in Chicago I once had a vhs tape a longtime ago called the roots of gospel which talked about the black isrealites and how they used to sing hymes I guess that part of how it got started but it would be cool to see a documentary posted in KZbin of how one of the best music genre ever got started

[@geraldblount4159]

And they lied they said nothing about Jimmy Castor the first real rapper in New York they believe it came from the Bronx it came from Queens Bertha butt Boogie King Kong it just began the b-boy dance over it just began Jimmy Castor the first rapper there were artists in the thirties and forties that rap and sound like a rap on the record

[@MikeBBlack4Life]

Just to be clear. It was called RAP before hip-hop!

[@solomontillman1574]

I think you got that mixed up there.

[@MikeBBlack4Life]

@@solomontillman1574 WRONG!

[@MikeBBlack4Life]

Your wrong!

[@solomontillman1574]

@@MikeBBlack4Life unimportant topic

[@MikeBBlack4Life]

@@solomontillman1574 But you choose to tell me I'm wrong! SMDH!😶

[@REAusetkmt]

this leaves the whole base history out - HipHop came from the BRONX in the early 1970's - Remember DJ's like King Mario Flowers. the roots of HipHop came from the BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITY not foreigners. this was homegrown speech about being "Close to the edge" yeah.

[@avinash.m7839]

48th happy birthday hip hop

[@jessicam.4777]

I think the recent piece, The Country Idiom of Hip Hop, by Dr. Imani Perry would shed some light on the actual origins of Rap Music and Hip-Hop culture.

[@neton79]

HipHop will never die! Check out MADK Productions here on KZbin!

[@royaltmusicc]

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[@neton79]

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[@royaltmusicc]

@@neton79 Finna go check it out

[@neton79]

@@royaltmusicc word I check your video our. Keep it up bro.

[@royaltmusicc]

@@neton79 thanks

[@bigwev101]

One man created hip hop NO hip hop evolution happened over time.

[@vnorm2907]

They left out Mr. Magic on WHBI. Hip Hop was first on the radio, this was 1978 or 79, I was in the 8th grade. There were records recorded before the Sugarhill Gang bit Rappers Delight from Grandmaster Caz. The Graffiti was also a part of Hip Hip.

[@geraldblount4159]

Like a crippled crab on crutches

[@CHowes8055]

The first hip-hop was Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan!

[@ChiefXAli]

Hip hop is an American creation from those of us who are called “Black”. No Black looking immigrant had any part in the CREATION of hip hop culture. Period

[@laboricuadeborinquen2007]

DJ Kool Herc would be both proud and horrified of what hip hop is today

[@blueblaze9862]

Lol he'd be confused

[@nodnoh-2174]

he's alive 😂 wtf

[@littyagain9402]

bro he prolly proud of what it became, tf lol

[@jayjones251]

Who cares, without him hip-hop still would of been created

[@geraldblount4159]

He wasn't the first rapper in New York Jimmy Cassidy from Queens this guy came in the 1980s I'm talkin about 69 70 go listen to this guy's music Bertha butt Boogie it just began King Kong by Jimmy Castor you will change your mind they didn't give this man no credit talking about the Bronx had nothing to do with it

[@thyshallrunitup5297]

The earliest origins of hip hop/rap started with Pigmeat Markham back in the '40s. Kool Herc didn't start hip hop.

[@wardatkins1320]

So what about Rudy Ray Moore and Rap Dirty ? What year was these are the breaks?

[@11Ninety4]

Thank black folks in NY for Hip hop n NO CNN IS NOT HIP HOP WELL NOW ITS CAUSE MFS NOWADAYSLIE ABOUT WHAT THE DID ON MUSIC

[@jackbuddoo5016]

When the slave ships left África most of them headed for Jamaica because of the British strong hold on Jamaica .Jamaica was a ship point base on it location in the carrribean so Jamaica was used as a distribution centre for the carrribean and North America, central American and South America.....The point I am making is we are all African people and de should not try to seperate ourself from each other ...We should make ourself an international community because out of one came all ........Out of one music came all music .............

[@scootscoot6974]

No they was drop of at different spots. They drop off the weaker slaves to the Caribbean islands & brought all the other slaves to the Americas. Do your research. Simply base on number you could obviously see there were Blacks in America’s with the native before slavery as well.

[@WhenTheLionRoars]

So if the stronger slaves were dropped off in America, why didn't they revolt and fight and gain their freedom like what happened in Haiti or Jamaica? You people are crazy

[@boilpoppingfacialchannel]

This cxxn unbelievable

[@KINGSU2U]

History...

[@Jah_Nzola]

It's ok, just like how Jamaicans try to lay claims to creating a whole subculture known as Hiphop, the same can be said about their music. Ska music from which Rocksteady and Reggae essentially came from is a direct product of American Rhythm & Blues and Jazz music. In fact all of the pioneers of Reggae and Ska were influenced by African American musicians such as Sam Cooke and the Drifters, Curtis Mayfield (whom in fact cowrote One Love), Fats Domino, Roscoe Gordon, Otis Redding, James Brown, Ray Charles etc. The truth is we all influenced eachother to some degree or another. Even the honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey was greatly influenced by Booker T Washington.

[@ConquerWealth.network]

this is not the origin of hip hop.

[@seanberry1969]

💕

[@mariaantoinettefaris9792]

I am Hip hop 4ever Boogie Down. One Love

[@ricgunzstreetfashion2480]

Not true

[@ricardocriado6223]

In the 70s puerto ricans and Cubans were rhyming nasty lyrics in salsa freestyles 🇵🇷🇨🇺 defending Africa and its people we been doing this for years. that video there was the beginning for ya in New York new York ricans and African Americans . Stop being disrespectful we love ya to but damn show some love .

[@ImRichBych]

These are facts! Everybody who going hard saying AA only ones that started hip hop are bunch of Johnny come latelies and majority from other states and not even from NYC. It’s very disrespectful! Rap/Hip hop culture was hated for decades on the east coast where it started. Now that it’s global everybody wants to lay claim.

[@melechdomeyhwh]

Puerto Rican and Cubans ain't no race.Just a bunch of mixed people

[@yunglife1244]

Puerto ricans came in after blacks had already started rhyming break dancing and graffiti. Puerto ricans had nothing to do with the creation of hip-hop. Lol they came in later when they seen it was cool 😂

[@tinacooper4531]

years ago My mother use to listen to a song call, The Name Game by Shirley Ellis, it was a Rap song she was rhyming about names of people also Shirley Ellis was a black American women so Rap music started with black Americans years and years ago.